You can use
various other Adobe applications to enhance or modify the assets
used in a Premiere Pro project. Also, you can use Premiere Pro to
edit projects begun in other applications.

Edit a clip in its original application

In Premiere Pro, the Edit Original command
opens clips in the applications associated with their file types.
You can edit clips in the associated applications. Premiere Pro
automatically incorporates the changes into the current project without
replacing files. Similarly, Premiere Pro sequences placed in other
applications, such as Adobe After Effects can be opened with the
host product’s Edit Original command.

Select a clip in either the Project panel or Timeline
panel.

Choose Edit > Edit Original.

Note:

You can export a movie from Premiere Pro
with the data necessary for the Edit Original command. In the Export
Movie Settings dialog box, choose Project from the Embedding options
menu.

Copy between After Effects and Premiere Pro

From the After Effects Timeline panel,
you can copy layers based on audio or video footage items (including
solids) and paste them into the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel.

From the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel, you can copy
assets (any items in a track) and paste them into the After Effects
Timeline panel.

From either After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro, you can
copy and paste footage items to the other’s Project panel.

note: You
can’t, however, paste footage items from the After Effects Project
panel into the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline panel.

If you want to work with all clips or a single sequence from an Adobe Premiere Pro project, use the Import command instead to import the project into After Effects.

Note:

Use Adobe Dynamic Link to create dynamic links, without rendering, between new or existing compositions in After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. For more information, see Adobe Dynamic Link.

Copy from After Effects to Adobe Premiere Pro

You can copy a layer based on a footage item
from an After Effects composition and paste it into an Adobe Premiere
Pro sequence. Adobe Premiere Pro converts these layers to clips
in the sequence and copies the source footage item to its Project
panel. If the layer contains an effect that is also used by Adobe
Premiere Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro converts the effect and all of
its settings and keyframes.

Start Adobe Premiere Pro (you must start Adobe
Premiere Pro before you copy the layer in After Effects).

Select a layer (or layers) from the After Effects Timeline
panel.

Note:

If you select multiple layers and the layers don’t
overlap in After Effects, they’re placed on the same track in Adobe
Premiere Pro. On the other hand, if the layers overlap in After
Effects, the order in which you select them determines the order
of their track placement in Adobe Premiere Pro. Each layer is placed
on a separate track, and the last selected layer appears on Track
1. For example, if you select layers from top to bottom, the layers
appear in the reverse order in Adobe Premiere Pro, with the bottom-most
layer on Track 1.

Choose Edit > Copy.

In Adobe Premiere Pro, open a sequence in the Timeline
panel.

Move the current-time indicator to the desired location,
and choose either Edit > Paste or Edit >
Paste Insert.

Results of pasting into Premiere Pro

When you paste a
layer into an Adobe Premiere Pro sequence, keyframes, effects, and
other properties in the copied layer are converted as follows:

After Effects item

Converted to in Adobe Premiere Pro

Notes

Audio volume property

Channel Volume filter

Blending modes

Blending modes supported by Adobe Premiere Pro
are converted

Effect properties and keyframes

Effect properties and keyframes, if the effect
also exists in Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro lists unsupported effects
as offline in the Effect Controls panel. Some After Effects effects
have the same names as those in Adobe Premiere Pro, but since they’re
actually different effects, they aren’t converted.

Expressions

Not converted

Layer markers

Clip markers

Masks and mattes

Not converted

Stereo Mixer effect

Channel Volume filter

Time Remap property

Time Remapping effect

Time Stretch property

Speed property

Speed and time stretch have an inverse relationship.
For example, 200% stretch in After Effects converts to 50% speed
in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Copy from Adobe Premiere Pro to
After Effects

You can copy a video or audio asset from an
Adobe Premiere Pro sequence and paste it into an After Effects composition.
After Effects converts assets to layers and copies the source footage
items into its Project panel. If the asset contains an effect that
is also used by After Effects, After Effects converts the effect
and all of its settings and keyframes.

You can copy color
mattes, stills, nested sequences, and offline files, too. After Effects
converts color mattes into solid-color layers and converts nested sequences
into nested compositions. When you copy a Photoshop still image into
After Effects, After Effects retains the Photoshop layer information.
You cannot paste Adobe Premiere Pro titles into After Effects, but
you can paste text with attributes from the Adobe Premiere Titler
into After Effects.

Select an asset from the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline
panel.

Choose Edit > Copy.

In After Effects, open a composition in the Timeline
panel.

With the Timeline panel active, choose Edit >
Paste. The asset appears as the topmost layer in the Timeline panel.

Note:

To paste the asset at the current-time indicator, place
the current-time indicator and press Ctrl+Alt+V (Windows) or Command+Option+V
(Mac OS).

Results of pasting into After Effects

When you paste an asset into an After Effects
composition, keyframes, effects, and other properties in a copied
asset are converted as follows:

Adobe Premiere Pro asset

Converted to in After Effects

Notes

Audio track

Audio layers

Audio tracks that are either 5.1 surround or
greater than 16‑bit aren’t supported. Mono and stereo audio tracks
are imported as one or two layers.

When you import a Premiere Pro project
into After Effects, features are converted in the same manner as
they are converted when copying from Premiere Pro to After Effects.

Working with Photoshop and Premiere
Pro

If you use Photoshop to create still images, you can
use Premiere Pro to make them move and change. You can animate an
entire image or any of its layers.

You can edit individual frames of video and image sequence files
in Photoshop. In addition to using any Photoshop tool to edit and
paint on video, you can also apply filters, masks, transformations,
layers styles, and blending modes. You can paint using the Clone
Stamp, Pattern Stamp, Healing Brush, or Spot Healing Brush. You
can also edit video frames using the Patch tool.

In Photoshop, with the Clone Stamp, you can sample a frame from
a video layer and paint with the sampled source onto another video
frame. As you move to different target frames, the source frame
changes relative to the frame from which you initially sampled.

After making edits, you can save the video as a PSD file, or
you can render it as a QuickTime movie or image sequence. You can
import any of these back into Premiere Pro for further editing.

If you use Premiere Pro to create movies, you can use Photoshop
to refine the individual frames of those movies. In Photoshop, you
can do any of the following:

Remove unwanted visual elements.

Draw on individual frames.

Use the superior selection and masking tools to divide a
frame into elements for animation or compositing.

Video tutorials for Premiere Pro and Photoshop workflow

Learn how Photoshop makes it super-easy to produce graphic and photographic content for video editing in this tutorial.

Watch this tutorial to learn how to work with unflattened Photoshop files in your video projects.

This video tutorial explains how to import a Photoshop file into Premiere Pro and access individual layers to work on selective animation and effects.

Comparative advantages for specific tasks

The
strengths of Premiere Pro lie in its numerous video editing features.
You can use it to combine Photoshop files with video clips, audio
clips, and other assets. You can use the Photoshop files, for example,
as titles, graphics, and masks.

In contrast, Photoshop has
excellent tools for painting, drawing, and selecting portions of
an image. The Photoshop Quick Selection tool and Magnetic Lasso tool
make it easy to create a mask from a complex shape. Rather than
hand-drawing a mask in Premiere Pro, consider doing this work in
Photoshop. Similarly, if you are applying several paint strokes
by hand to get rid of dust, consider using the Photoshop paint tools.

The
animation and video features in Photoshop Extended include simple keyframe-based
animation. Premiere Pro, however, provides quite a bit more keyframe
control over various properties.

Exchanging still images

Premiere Pro can
import and export still images in many formats. For greatest versatility,
however, use the native Photoshop PSD format when transferring individual
frames or still image sequences from Photoshop to Premiere Pro.

When
you import a PSD file into Premiere Pro, you can choose whether
to import it as a flattened image, or with its layers separate and
intact.

It is often a good idea to prepare a still image in
Photoshop before importing it into Premiere Pro. Examples of such
preparation include correcting color, scaling, and cropping. It
is often better to change a source image in Photoshop than to have
Premiere Pro perform the same operation many times per second as
it renders each frame for previews or final output.

In Photoshop,
you can create a PSD document that is set up correctly for a specific
video output type. From the New File dialog box, select a Film &
Video preset. In Premiere Pro, you can create a PSD document that
matches your composition and sequence settings. Choose File >
New > Photoshop File.

Exchanging movies

You
can no longer exchange PSD video files with Photoshop, however,
you can render a movie directly from Photoshop and then import it
back into Premiere Pro. For example, you can create a QuickTime
movie from Photoshop that can then be imported into Premiere Pro.

Color

Premiere Pro works internally with
colors in an RGB (red, green, blue) color space. If you want to
edit video clips you create in Photoshop in Premiere Pro, create
the clips in RGB.

If you want to broadcast the final movie
it is best to ensure, in Photoshop, that the colors in your image
are broadcast-safe. Assign the appropriate destination color space—for
example, SDTV (Rec. 601)—to the document in Photoshop.

Create and edit Photoshop files

You can create a still Photoshop file that
automatically inherits the pixel and frame aspect ratio settings
of your Premiere Pro project. You can also edit any still image
file in a Premiere Pro project in Photoshop.

Create a Photoshop file in a project

Choose File > New >
Photoshop File.

Photoshop opens with a new blank still image. The pixel
dimensions match the project’s video frame size, and image guides
show the title-safe and action-safe areas for the project.

Edit a still image file in Photoshop

From within a project, you can open an image
file in most formats that Adobe Photoshop supports. Premiere Pro
does not import files in CMYK or LAB color formats.

Select a still-image clip in either the Project
panel or Timeline panel.

Choose Edit > Edit In Adobe Photoshop.

The file opens in Photoshop. When you save the file, changes
are available in the Premiere Pro project.

Working with SpeedGrade and Premiere Pro

You can color grade a Premiere Pro project directly in SpeedGrade using the Direct-Link feature. Or you can use a roundtrip workflow to send your video sequences from Premiere Pro to SpeedGrade for color grading, and bring them back to Premiere Pro.

Working with Encore and Premiere
Pro

Using Adobe Encore CS6 and Adobe Premiere Pro, you can burn a
single sequence to DVD or Blu-ray Disc. You can burn each sequence
in your project to a separate DVD or Blu-ray Disc. First, add all
the content you want to include on a disc into a sequence. After
you edit the sequence, perform the following tasks:

Add Encore chapter markers

You can add Encore chapter markers in a Adobe
Premiere Pro sequence. You can send the Encore chapter markers,
along with the sequence to Encore.

In Encore, if you create
an AutoPlay DVD, the Encore chapter markers become scene markers.
When viewing the DVD, pressing the Previous button or Next button
on the remote control skips backward or forward to the next of these markers.
If you create a DVD or Blu-ray Disc with menus, you can link scene buttons
on the menus to the Encore chapter markers.

Send to Encore or to an MPEG-2
file

You can send a whole sequence, or any portion
of a sequence, from Adobe Premiere Pro to Encore. From Encore, you
can burn the sequence directly to a DVD without menus, or add menus
and buttons before burning. From Encore, you can export the project
in any of the following forms:

you can burn the project to disc,

you can save the project to a DVD image file,

you can save the project to a set of DVD folders,

you can save the project to DVD master files on DLT tape.

you can export the project to a SWF file for posting
on the web.

Alternatively, using the MPEG2-DVD format, you can export
a DVD-compliant MPEG-2 file from Adobe Premiere Pro. You can use
the MPEG-2 file in most DVD-authoring applications.

Choose a menu template

Encore templates are predesigned menus that
come in several styles. Buttons on the templates automatically link
to chapter markers placed in the sequence. Encore creates additional
submenus as necessary to accommodate all the chapter markers in
a sequence.

Note:

AutoPlay DVDs do not have menus. Do not choose
a template for AutoPlay DVDs.

Customize the menu template

Edit titles, change graphics, or add video
for background in Encore. You can also use video in button thumbnails
by specifying a section of a clip to play in the button.

Preview the disc

Check the functionality and the look of your
DVD or Blu-ray Disc menus in the Preview DVD window.

Burn the disc

With a DVD or Blu-ray Disc burner installed
or connected, you can burn your content to disc. You can save the
compressed files to a folder for playback from a computer hard drive.
You can also save an ISO image to distribute or burn to a DVD.

Note:

Encore
creates DVDs that conform to DVD-video format. It does not create data
or audio DVDs.

Joost van der Hoeven provides a video tutorial on the Adobe website that demonstrates exchanging information between Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro using XML projects.

Note:

Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro 7 (and earlier) can share Final Cut Pro XML files for data exchange. To exchange information between Final Cut Pro X and Premiere Pro, you can use a third party tool called "Xto7." For more information on using this tool, see here.

See this page for several documents that make the transition from Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro easier.

Note:

An exported XML file from Premiere Pro can be imported into
some versions of Final Cut Express, as well.